Steve9911
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I don't know if anyone will find this useful but this is what I have wanted to achieve for a while now and have finally got around to completing it.
1: Fit an additional 240V socket in the rear to charge a Power station when on hook up.
2: Fit an 50amp Anderson socket to allow me to connect a Bluetti Alternator charger to allow me to charge the Power station while driving.
3: Use the Power station as if on EHU to power the fridge etc while off grid camping.
I hope this is of some use to anyone considering doing the same.
Start by accessing the RCB to allow for connection of an additional power cable, this can be easily feed down to the rear battery compartment.
The cable can be feed down from behind the RCB panel into the left rear corner of the battery compartment, this was much easier than expected.
The 240V socket on the left and the Anderson socket on the right I sourced from Amazon. The easiest place to put these is on the removeable battery panel cover.
I wanted to be able to remove everything and just be left with the sockets if I required all the rear space at anytime. So I used Velcro to attached the Bluetti Charger and Trip. I purchased the additional cable that you can buy with the charger because it is very long and comes with the safety Trip, I was then able to make two cables from this. Just incase I wanted a longer cable to charge the Power station in the cabin.
This is it fully connected, the 240V is doing nothing as it is not on EHU and the Alternator charger is not taking anything from the leisure batteries as the Bluetti is a smart charger and will only work when the engine is running.
If I want to use the power station to power the Cali as if on EHU I just need to unplug the male end of the IEC lead form the power station input and connect it to a Female IEC lead I have made to go from the power station 240V output.
Obviously I have everything sitting out and will be packed much tighter when traveling so will not take up as much space as in the photo's. I will see how things go this year I might end up putting the Charger Trip in the battery cupboard out of the way. I hope this might help someone who maybe considering doing something like this.
Goodluck.
1: Fit an additional 240V socket in the rear to charge a Power station when on hook up.
2: Fit an 50amp Anderson socket to allow me to connect a Bluetti Alternator charger to allow me to charge the Power station while driving.
3: Use the Power station as if on EHU to power the fridge etc while off grid camping.
I hope this is of some use to anyone considering doing the same.
Start by accessing the RCB to allow for connection of an additional power cable, this can be easily feed down to the rear battery compartment.
The cable can be feed down from behind the RCB panel into the left rear corner of the battery compartment, this was much easier than expected.
The 240V socket on the left and the Anderson socket on the right I sourced from Amazon. The easiest place to put these is on the removeable battery panel cover.
I wanted to be able to remove everything and just be left with the sockets if I required all the rear space at anytime. So I used Velcro to attached the Bluetti Charger and Trip. I purchased the additional cable that you can buy with the charger because it is very long and comes with the safety Trip, I was then able to make two cables from this. Just incase I wanted a longer cable to charge the Power station in the cabin.
This is it fully connected, the 240V is doing nothing as it is not on EHU and the Alternator charger is not taking anything from the leisure batteries as the Bluetti is a smart charger and will only work when the engine is running.
If I want to use the power station to power the Cali as if on EHU I just need to unplug the male end of the IEC lead form the power station input and connect it to a Female IEC lead I have made to go from the power station 240V output.
Obviously I have everything sitting out and will be packed much tighter when traveling so will not take up as much space as in the photo's. I will see how things go this year I might end up putting the Charger Trip in the battery cupboard out of the way. I hope this might help someone who maybe considering doing something like this.
Goodluck.
